Put in some hours today on the water elements.
The caverns are located at the northern most point of the world - the land below the great northern wall of the world is glacial and fractures off into the sea. The rivers you see running out of the caves do not carry water but a condensed energy known as Misya. It is present in very small percentages in all water supplies but is highly poisonous if undiluted.

vman3force

07-14-2011, 06:14 PM

Today I began on the caverns, adding offshoots and tunnels.
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going to continue doing that, plus laying down the points of interest.

Diamond

07-15-2011, 02:17 AM

Cool concept and awesome execution. I like!

vman3force

07-16-2011, 04:31 PM

Went and added a few more extraneous cave complexes - carved by sentients and beasts alike. Also added a scratchy patina and toyed with the colors. Next to add markers to points of interest and labels.

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arsheesh

07-16-2011, 09:12 PM

Interesting idea for a map, and well executed to boot! Great job so far Vman!

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

vman3force

07-17-2011, 05:14 PM

Trying to decide how to handle labeling. Here are a few options im considering.

hmm. I kinda like the Telegraphem. Fits the style, easy to read. That's just me. =)

What do you call that background? To me it looks like a tinted glass plate over concrete... nice looking.

vman3force

07-17-2011, 07:57 PM

Its a texture from over on deviantart.com - i believe its a high res scan of an old photo backing with an overlayed darker scratch texture.

vman3force

07-18-2011, 02:46 PM

Put in a ton of labels, notations, etc.

Added some flavor text into the negative spaces, probably going to bury them a bit so that they arent so crisp but i thought i'd show them like this so that everyone would have a chance to read them all...

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Chashio

07-18-2011, 03:32 PM

Sweet! The mix of fonts looks good, but I hope you won't bury them too far. Is that supposed to say 'shadowmen' instead of 'hadowmen' ? It's looking amazing.

vman3force

07-18-2011, 03:40 PM

yep - typo. picked it out right after i posted :P

vman3force

07-20-2011, 03:45 PM

Well, my hard drive crashed...

On the bright side i got my computer in to the mac store the day before my warranty ran out (whew!) and i had most everything backed up.

Unfortunately I lost the .PSD file for this map so theres not too much more I can do to it, I guess this is the final WIP.

Im pretty happy with it, it was good practice.

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Jaxilon

07-28-2011, 12:54 AM

Looks like something out of Fallout or some post apocalyptic setting.

290blue

07-28-2011, 04:12 AM

This is excellent vman; tragedy about the hard drive crash.

I love the little tunnels and heddars... is it a real language you've used to name these places? If it's one you've made up, you've executed it very well.

vman3force

07-28-2011, 02:26 PM

The language was made up for the piece - I think the meaning behind most of the words should be pretty easy to decipher. Im a big fan of post-apocalyptic and dark fantasy; I was going for a lovecraft-esque feel here.